Walter Behrmann Explained

Walter Emmerich Behrmann (May 22, 1882, Oldenburg  - May 3, 1955, Berlin) was a German geographer. He is remembered for introducing a cylindrical map projection known as the "Behrmann projection".^[1]

Biography

From 1901 to 1905, he studied geography, mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen, where he was a student of Hermann Wagner. Later on, he worked as an assistant to geographer Joseph Partsch at the University of Leipzig (1908/09).^[2] In 1912/13 he participated as a geographer in the Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition to New Guinea^[3] along with Richard Thurnwald.^[4]

In 1918 he was appointed director of the Landeskundliche Kommission in Romania. In 1922 he was named an associate professor of cartography at the University of Berlin, and afterwards was a professor of geography at Frankfurt University (from 1923) and at the Free University of Berlin (from 1948). In 1954 he attained "professor emeritus" status.^[2]

Selected works

• Über die niederdeutschen Seebücher des fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1906 (doctoral thesis).
• Nach Deutsch-Neuguinea, 1914.
• Der Sepik (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss) und sein Stromgebiet, 1917.
• Im Stromgebiet des Sepik, eine deutsche Forschungsreise in Neuguinea, 1922.
• Das westliche Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land in Neu-Guinea, 1924.
• Rhein-Mainischer Atlas für Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Unterricht, 1929 (with Otto Maull).
• Aufgaben der Kolonialkartographie, 1936.
• Die Entschleierung der Erde, 1948.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. http://www.mathworks.com/help/map/behrmanncylindricalprojection.html MathWorks
2. http://www.ifl-leipzig.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Bibliothek_Archiv/Archiv_Findb%C3%BCcher_PDF/Behrmann.pdf Leibniz Institut für Länderkunde
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=lZp6lhCnHfMC&dq=%22Walter+Behrmann%22+1882&pg=PA18 The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
4. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nathan_Whitmore/publication/256422530_The_Hindenburg_Wall_A_review_of_existing_knowledge/links/004635227bf6b65ba5000000/The-Hindenburg-Wall-A-review-of-existing-knowledge.pdf The Hindenburg Wall. A review of existing knowledge.
5. http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ABehrmann%2C+Walter%2C&qt=hot_author OCLC WorldCat Search
6. http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22Behrmann%2C+Walter%2C+1882-1955%22 OCLC Classify